Cordovan, please update the Official Roleplaying rules and policy thread!

[Elwenwing]

Preface/disclaimer: I am not a Laurelin roleplayer. I do roleplay my characters in an ultra light fashion on other servers.

This post from SSG is BS. How dare SSG abandon the only RP server. Laurelin should be preserved as a monument to the truth of this game and the genre of mmoRPg.
This is SSG chance to step up and honestly support this type of gameplay. Shame on you SSG.
I will volunteer an hour(ish) a day to processing GM requests for support of RP on Laurelin, as a community assistant.
I recommend that SSG make a serious attempt to keep the gem of this game, that is Laurelin, intact.

I suggest a hardline approach...
Post a message in all public chat channels, on an hourly basis, that Laurelin is a STRICT RP server over the next month.
At said date open and FREE transfers OFF LAURELIN will begin for the whole month.
Anything after said period will be handled in the proper hardcore method of account adjustments and account bans.

This is SSG chance to show the MMO world just how serious you really are about the Intellectual Property you have been granted stewardship of.

/signed ...an upset fan
Edit: I will log in this weekend to finish a crafting project I promised to some stranger in world chat.
Enjoy my Mordor Expansion pre-order money. I will not condone this behavior. Shame on you!

Honestly SSG did not officially abandon their support for the RP rules, yet their actions and statements do make it feel we are headed in that direction!

That's why I started this thread in the first place, to hopefully get a bit of clarity on where we are now in that regard.

I very much agree that they should better support the RP status of the official RP servers, but I would not really want to see a hardline approach myself.

I would prefer it if SSG would follow this course of action:

1) Update the RP rules to what they should be according to SSG, while keeping in mind the RP nature of the server. If they want to make changes to the rules that is their prerogative, and I personally hope they will be generally what we have now!

2) Make a clear statement that players on RP servers are expected to follow the rules!

3) Enforce them better than they are enforced now

Please understand it's not my intention to drive anyone away from Laurelin!

I honestly feel the rules have never been that strict or difficult to respect with a bit of good will from the player to do so!